Grand Trunk Ry. Co. of Canada v. Cobleigh
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Vermont. This was an action by Wayne Cobleigh against the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada to recover damages for personal injuries. The plaintiff recovered a verdict. A motion for a new trial was denied (75 Fed. 247), and the defendant now brings error to review the judgment against it.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
This is a writ of error by the defendant in the court below to review a judgment for the plaintiff entered upon the verdict of a jury.
The action was brought to recover damages for injuries sustained by the plaintiff by the alleged negligence of the defendant. While driving his team over the defendant’s tracks where they intersected a public highway in the town of Stratford, N. H., he was struck by one of the defendant’s trains. The negligence imputed was the failure of the defendant to sound the whistle and ring the bell upon the locomotive, as required by the statutes…
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